On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 08:55:55AM -0400, Lomky wrote: > Hello, > > I am attempting to make a Perl script that takes in Arabic text in code page 6 > (just glancing at it, I see an ascii range of C7 to ED) and converts it out > into Arabic script in a pdf document. I had the code working almost completely > with just LaTeX and arabtex, but the Arabic output was left to right and was > not connecting the script into words. After a bit of research, I decided to > try > xetex and arabxetex. However, now my code comes directly out as > the Latin characters, instead of being translated. I assume this is because > xetex assumes input in utf-8 (I think?), where latex assumed something else. > It > does now format right to left, at least at a sentence level.
Your best option is to convert the Arabic text Unicode before outputting the TeX file, since you are already processing it with Perl and I assume Perl have some encoding conversion utilities (or, if you are running a *nix system, you can pipe your text through iconv and convert it). Alternatively, you can try inputenc (or xinputenc, I don't recall the exact name if the xetex compatible package), but this might not be as robust as using Unicode input. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
